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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | April 23, 2012 |”A lady in Chicago was reported to have used hammers to kill flies. When asked why, she replied that she wanted to make sure the sucker was dead! –Ezeana Achusim These are court-free times; Court freed Elumelu, frees Akingbola! Court freed Ibori, freed Lucky. […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), John Egbeazien Oshodi, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Monday, April 23rd, 2012

By Dr. John E. Oshodi | Abuja, Nigeria | April 23, 2012 Mr. President, Why Ministers Defy Order on the number of Aides It is now in the public domain that a good number of Nigerian Ministers have openly ignored your directives to curtail the number of their Aides in regards to special adviser/assistants and […]
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Articles, Boko Haram, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Thursday, April 19th, 2012

By Sunny Chris Okenwa| Abidjan, Ivory Coast | April 19, 2012 – My name is Mallam Boko Haram and I am proud to so introduce myself. I am the public enemy number one of the confused federal government of Nigeria. But I am still holding out, outsmarting the security armada unleashed on me and my […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, Women Politics
Sunday, April 15th, 2012

By Raheem ‘MOSHOESHOE’ Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | April 15, 2012 | The news surrounding Mrs. Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria’s Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy (one wonders if these two portfolio are not the same) and her endorsement by many to head the World Bank position has continued to generate comments both within […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, April 15th, 2012

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 15, 2012 – Recently, a minor event took me down memory lane and I felt nostalgic to the point of tears. In that my nostalgic mood, a song from the past came to my mind. It was a song by Candi Staton. I do not remember the […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Reuben Abati, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Thursday, April 12th, 2012

By Sunny Chris Okenwa | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | April 12, 2012 – Early January this year as we all ushered in the new year my family and I had attended a church service in town where our pastor whose ecclessiastical radicalism is doubtless preached about the month of January ‘belonging’ to Reuben — biblically […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists
Saturday, April 7th, 2012

By Arnold Alalibo | NNP | April 7, 2012 – Soon after he assumed office, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, undertook to reform the police force and take it to an internationally- acceptable standard. Abubakar has since then taken a number of steps to effect this. One of the measures he took was the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists, Women Politics
Friday, April 6th, 2012

By Emeka Chiakwelu | NNP | April 6, 2012 – It will be simply splendid! Splendid indeed to have a Nigerian woman become the president of the World Bank. Three frontline nations and economic powerhouse in Africa – South Africa, Angola and of course Nigeria have endorsed her for this important post. Nigeria has even […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, John Egbeazien Oshodi, NNP Columnists
Friday, April 6th, 2012

By John E. Oshodi | Abuja | Nigeria | April 6, 2012 – President Obama, view Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, through your own lens Mr. President, throughout your life you have always believed that ‘may the best win’ and with this philosophy the world believed in you, and today as the President of the free world, you remain […]
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Articles, Columnists, Niger Delta, NNP Columnists, Philips Akpoviri.
Friday, April 6th, 2012

By Philip Akpoviri | NNP | April 6, 2012 – Has anyone ever imagined how much of an Eldorado the South-Western region of Nigeria would have become if the vast reserves of hydrocarbons situate in the Niger Delta were largely domiciled in that region? Probably that part would have been at par with today’s eye-catching […]